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Stoliczkia

{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}

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| taxon = Stoliczkia

| authority = Jerdon, 1870

| type_species = Stoliczkia khasiensis

| type_species_authority = Jerdon, 1870

| synonyms = Stoliczkaia (misspelling)

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Stoliczkia is a genus of snakes in the family Xenodermidae. The genus contains two species, both from India.{{NRDB species|genus=Stoliczkia|species=borneensis|accessdate=24 February 2016}}{{NRDB species|genus=Stoliczkia|species=khasiensis|accessdate=24 February 2016}}

Etymology

The genus is named after Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian-born zoologist who later worked for the Geological Survey of India. Many subsequent publications have used the spelling Stoliczkaia. However, Stoliczkia is considered valid because it was repeated twice in Jerdon's original publication, rendering a spelling error unlikely. Moreover, Stoliczkaia Neumayr 1875 is an ammonite genus.

Species

There are two species:

References

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{{cite book|author1=Wallach, Van|authorlink1=Van Wallach|author2=Williams, Kenneth L.|authorlink2=Kenneth L. Williams|author3=Boundy, Jeff|title=Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wsySAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA689|date=2014|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4822-0847-4|page=689}}

{{cite book|author1=Beolens, Bo|author2=Watkins, Michael|author3=Grayson, Michael|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ovZoFyLhzkC&pg=PA255|date=2011|publisher=Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp|isbn=978-1-4214-0135-5}} ("Stoliczka", p. 255).

{{cite journal|author=Jerdon TC|authorlink=Thomas C. Jerdon|year=1870|title=Notes on Indian Herpetology|journal=Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=1870|pages=66–85|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41777595#page/127/mode/1up}} (Stoliczkia, new genus, p. 81).

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Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Genus "Stoliczkaia [sic]", p. 175).
  • Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Genus "Stoliczkaia [sic]", p. 125).

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Category:Xenodermidae

Category:Snakes of Asia

Category:Snake genera

Category:Taxa named by Thomas C. Jerdon

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